For much of this month the eyes of the world have been focused on Glasgow, where world leaders have been wrestling with climate change.
Meanwhile, 2000 miles away, and with a lot less fanfare, another global drama has been unfolding.
The gathering of thousands of would-be immigrants to the EU on the border between Eastern Europe’s last dictatorship, Belarus, and Poland is creating a crisis that, if mishandled, could have consequences every bit as grave as those debated at Cop26 – but far sooner. Yesterday, the temperature rose further when Russian paratroopers started landing in Belarus…
